Ian K wrote: >Hi there. >My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. >It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot >distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power >failure. (Nothing else dies, battery prescence is confirmed with >hardware lighting, and this lighting indicates a full charge. >I also see no real connections between what I am doing when >the computer turns off. Once, I was browsing the web in Firefox, >and tonight, I was playing around with the XScreensaver settings. >I have noticed, that it seems to only happen while in KDE, although >Im not 100% sure. Also, I have the KDE laptop battery monitor set >to do *nothing* if the battery should reach a warning or critical >power value. This has happened to be about 6 times over the last >few days. I also just got KDE emerged, so I can say its been happening >probably since it has been up. I have left it on for extended amounts >of time in the regular CLI though, without any problems. >I can't really think of anything else to say, but I should mention that >it **seems** to do a safe shutdown, but Im not sure. The power is >cut rather instantly, and I am not swished off into a system reboot >message. When I start it up again, ReiserFS claims the file system is >clean, and goes on to replay the journal as usual. Do any of >you have any thoughts on this? Thanks a lot! >Ian > >
Are you getting anything in /var/log/messages? -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
